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Deanery News November 2020 Deanery News November 2020 Hope – the universal currency 2021 Dairy Dates: Deanery Synod Meetings With recent announcements from Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna and a fur- ther encouraging announcement this week from the Oxford- AstraZeneca 7pm via Zoom team, we are witnessing remarkable scientific advances coupled with in- creasing confidence that COVID can be controlled. Deputy Chief Medical Extraordinary meeting: th Officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam likened it to a penalty shoot out with Wednesday 27 January Pfizer’s results the first goal in the back of the net, Moderna’s the second. (Vision consultation) As each goal is scored, confidence grows and with it hope. Wednesday April 21st The sense of optimism that we might have turned a significant corner is st countered by reflections on lives lost, the thoughts and worries that trou- Wednesday July 21 ble us, the isolation and loneliness we still feel, and now placed in tier 3 Wednesday October 20th restrictions. Yet hope knows no boundaries. It is the universal currency of all humanity. Just as the sun breaks through each morning, so hope breaks Leadership Team through at every opportunity. Meetings As we ponder on the immediate horizon of 'what will Christmas be like?’ Wednesday 20th January the horizon beyond may elude us. 2021 will be a pivotal year. Whilst much of our national life will hope to be gathered around the mass vaccination Tuesday 23rd March of millions, much of our diocesan life will gather around the vision and Tuesday 6th July strategic priorities emerging from it. This may seem inconsequential com- pared with the urgent national scene, but it will occupy significant space in Tuesday 28th September our common life as church within community. If you want to join the con- versation we would welcome your participation. In as much as your local Full Chapter Meetings resources will allow, may I encourage you to fill your PCC places on dean- 10.30am via Zoom ery synod. Your voice matters. Thursday 21st January Hope is what we crave – for our families – for our communities – for our churches. It’s why faith in Jesus is so utterly compelling. If we never lose Diocesan Synod Meetings sight of him, we never lose sight of hope. And as someone recently said th ‘God is in the midst of it all and because of that, everything will be all right Saturday 20 March in the end.’ Saturday 3rd July th Rev’d Colin Pearson Saturday 9 October Area Dean PEAK DEANERY NEWS Eileen Burt, Deanery Administrator [email protected] Contributions are very wel- come from across the Deanery From our Lay Chair If you have noticed your clergy walking round in deep thought, it may be that they are thinking about some of the changes Bishop Libby has been sharing with them about the changes she is wanting to implement in her new vision. It will be revealed in early December to Diocesan Synod. A few Lay people have been involved in two small focus groups to look at various issues surrounding it and the last Diocesan Syn- od, whilst not revealing the full plans for implementing the vision, did raise a few issues. I called a meeting of The Diocesan House of Laity in October and we raised some good questions. +Libby is facing putting across her plans in very unsettling and unforeseen national circumstances. What each person of faith in Derby Diocese needs to do, is to sit down and consider what must be changed in the way we live church if we are to con- tinue to be an influence in our families, towns and villages and how can we best do it fairly and evenly? The instinct in some rural communities is to sit back and hope no-one notices you are there so you can get on with life. On this occasion, this is not a good policy! Now Is the time to read, pray and think, then make your voice heard and have your say in one way of another ! Change is coming and we need to be involved in it! … but enjoy Christmas And take hope from it! Best wishes Christine McMullen, Lay Chair – Peak Deanery Synod Lay Chair – Derby Diocesan Synod Peak Deanery Synod 2020 At your October APCM’s you will have voted for your new PCC members, Safeguarding Officers, Church Wardens and Deanery Synod members. Thank you to all who have served in their roles and who are now retiring, and thank you to those who are now in position on the Deanery Synod 2020—2023. It will certainly be an interesting time as the Bishops Vision is discussed an implemented throughout our Deanery. Please note the dates of our meetings on the front page. Please also ensure that the relevant forms have been completed and returned to Derby Church House so that our database can be updated. If you have not completed the GDPR form so that your details can be added, please be in contact and I can send you the form. It can be completed on-line providing you have a sole email address—ie not joint use or generic.—Eileen Burt, Peak Deanery Synod Secretary [email protected] Announcements Downing Street has announced that Her Majesty The Queen has approved the nomination of the Revd Canon Malcolm Macnaughton, presently Chief of Staff to the Archbishop of York, as the next Suffragan Bishop of Repton in the Diocese of Derby. Malcolm was educated at Queens’ College Cambridge and trained for ministry at Ridley Hall. He served his title at St Andrew’s Haughton-le-Skerne, in the diocese of Durham, and was ordained Priest in 1982. He was appointed Priest-in -Charge at the Anglican Methodist Local Ecumenical Part- nership of All Saints, Newton Hall in the diocese of Durham in 1985. In 1990, he became Team Vicar of St John’s Hox- ton in the diocese of London, and served as Area Dean of Hackney from 1994 to 1999. In 2002, he was appointed Team Rector in the Hambleden Valley Group of Churches in the diocese of Oxford, and became Area Dean of High Wycombe in 2005. Malcolm took up his current role as Chief of Staff to the Archbishop of York in 2007. Malcolm is married to Pam, an ordained pioneer minister and a leadership specialist with the Church Pastoral Aid Society. We welcome Bishop Malcolm to the Derby Diocese. Hello to members of the Peak Deanery. My name is Paul Moore, and I was recently licensed by Bishop Libby as Priest-in-Charge of the benefice of Hathersage with Bamford & Derwent and Grindleford. I’m looking for- ward to meeting and getting to know you in this Deanery and to our working together. I was brought up in rural Nottinghamshire, and we used to come to Der- byshire for day trips. I never dreamt I would be living here one day. I’ve been vicaring for over 30 years in Oxford, West Yorkshire, Cowplain, near Portsmouth, where Messy Church started in 2004, and, most re- cently, I was Archdeacon for Mission Development in Winchester Dio- cese, with a very wide role including mission planning in parishes and deaneries, fresh expressions and pioneering, social enterprise, new forms of training for lay ministries, development of our own ordination course and engaging with the six Anglican Provinces with which we have Companion Links. I’m passionate about finding ways to reach people who don’t do church , and am looking forward to joining in with what God is doing in the Hope Valley. My wife, Lucy is Team Leader for Messy Church worldwide, and is on Zoom at most hours of the day and night. We have a grown up son and daughter, and a small but feisty dog. For relaxation, I enjoy playing guitar and saxophone, listening to jazz, rock, folk and classical music, walking and reading ob- scure novels. The Venerable Dr Paul Moore Priest-in-Charge of the Benefice of Hathersage with Bamford & Derwent and Grindleford Bishop’s Badge Awards 2020 Despite the restrictions of the Pandemic, we are delighted that the following members of the Peak Deanery have been awarded the Bishop’s Badge 2020. Mr Vincent Ryder, Reader at St Andrew’s Hadfield, for tirelessly keeping in touch with church mem- bers, most without internet, showing great love and kindness, leaving them meals to demonstrate they are remembered. Mr Philip Cartledge and Mrs Rosie Shipley from the Buxton Team Parish, for supporting and hosting online zoom gatherings so people felt less isolated. For enabling and encouraging spiritual conversa- tions around classical and choral music. Mrs Hazel Everatt of the Buxton Team Parish, for encouraging people to keep in touch with phone calls and online zoom service and Miss Jill Hulme of the same parish, for setting up, learning about and hosting many zoom meetings and services during the pandemic. Congratulations to you all for your dedication to God’s work during these unusual times. Training opportunities Growing faith and developing ministry Sign up now for January 2021 Three options available : 1. Sign up for the First year of the Diocesan Certificate in Mission and Ministry course to help with growth in faith and the development of ministry. This is now all online and can be completed from the comfort of your own home. The course is modular and each module consists of seven sessions which you complete on your own and three which you complete with other students on Study Days via Zoom. 2. Think you may have a calling to be a Reader? The first year of the new Reader Training course starts in January and is now a discernment year which you can take while working with a Vocations Advis- er and the supervision of your incumbent.
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